Seeing Song Qi finish his conversation, Earth-Rabbit retracted his head again.

He knew this team before him was unfathomably deep. Perhaps the number of “Echo” users was more than he had imagined.

Usually when “Echo” users participated in games, they mostly relied on their own abilities, causing their coordination with others to worsen, and they wouldn’t use strategies excessively either.

But this team was different.

Not only did they have a large number of “Echo” users, they were constantly trying various strategies. If he wanted to win this game, he would inevitably need to consider things more thoroughly than usual.

At this moment, Earth-Rabbit happened to raise his head and look toward the opposite wall. He suddenly discovered something unusual. On that mud-covered wall, someone had actually written four characters.

“Everyone Stay Silent.”

“Everyone…” Earth-Rabbit widened his eyes to look at the text on the opposite wall, discovering these four characters were very fresh and should have just been written.

“Wait a minute…” Earth-Rabbit felt he had already thought a lot, but still hadn’t penetrated the other party’s strategy.

Why had he been pulled into this room by some mysterious force?

Could it be just to let him see the four characters written on the wall?

“Everyone Stay Silent”?

If thinking from this angle… could the whispers he had just heard be one of their strategies?

These people attempted to disturb his audiovisual perception, so they deliberately released a smoke screen?

Earth-Rabbit narrowed his eyes and pondered for a moment. The current situation was indeed not easy to handle. If he wanted to figure out his direction, he could only proceed “north,” heading to what he believed was room “Fourteen.” As long as the room he entered had no “door” directly opposite, he could verify that the room he entered was at the very bottom of the entire map. It would only have three doors, with a wall directly opposite.

But why had someone written characters on the wall in the room before him…?

“Ah…!”

Earth-Rabbit suddenly thought of something. He lowered his head and rapidly calculated with his brain. Although in past games he basically didn’t need to use much brainpower, this time was truly different.

The other party was preparing to win by strategy. If he didn’t get smarter, he would be played in the palm of their hands.

“You fools… I know your return route…” Earth-Rabbit held his forehead and continuously recalled.

Earlier when he was eavesdropping at the starting point, a woman had said, “We’ll advance in a zigzag pattern, from room ‘Sixteen’ via ‘Twelve,’ ‘Eleven,’ ‘Seven,’ then arrive at ‘Six.'”

“You’re toying with me…” Earth-Rabbit’s thoughts suddenly opened up as he abruptly realized something.

The room he was in wasn’t “Ten” at all!

He wasn’t in “Ten” south of room “Six,” but rather located in “Seven” to the east!

This was indeed a very clever strategy. Once he pushed open that door he believed to be to the “north,” he would see a wall no matter what.

Because whether it was room “Fourteen” at the southernmost side or room “Eight” at the easternmost side, these rooms only had three doors. He would only be able to see one wall.

“That was close…” Earth-Rabbit’s lips trembled slightly. “What kind of oddballs are you all… actually attempting to make me get lost on my own grounds? But you still miscalculated… You didn’t expect I had accurately heard your route and memorized it… You never passed through room ‘Ten’ at all, so how could you possibly write characters in room ‘Ten’?”

He touched his somewhat dizzy head and hurriedly cleared his thoughts.

When these people formulated this tactic, they probably didn’t know his hearing was excellent. That is to say, when they wrote the characters, they were also completely unprepared. Now even if they wanted to change to other tactics, he wouldn’t fall for it.

After all, as long as he confirmed he wasn’t lost, everything that followed would no longer be a problem.

His target was only room “Sixteen.”

As long as he could intercept all participants’ paths in advance, all the problems before him could be easily resolved.

So what if they were a united team?

The biggest problem with a united team was that not one person would choose to escape alone. As long as one teammate hadn’t escaped trouble, they would keep waiting in room “Sixteen.”

“Since I’m in room ‘Seven’… it’s enough to prove your whispers earlier were also lies… From now on, I won’t fall for any of your words anymore…”

Behind him was room “Six,” and he had opened the door and walked to room “Seven.” As long as he had these two rooms as coordinates, all the other rooms would be arranged one by one in his mind.

“Forward, turn right, forward.” Earth-Rabbit drew the route map he was about to take in his mind. “None of your movements will be faster than mine.”

Just at this moment, a bell sound suddenly came from the distance.

Earth-Rabbit felt like today might be the tenth day. On this day, “Echo” users frequently appeared. It seemed some rather unusual major event was about to happen.

He took several deep breaths, turned his head and said, “Song Qi, do you know?”

“What?” Song Qi asked.

“As long as all of your action points haven’t been used up, this game will never start the next round.”

“Is that so?”

“So what do you think?” Earth-Rabbit asked. “If you just keep standing in that room doing nothing, time will only pass minute by minute, second by second.”

“Isn’t that good?” Song Qi reached up to smooth back his hair that had fallen before his forehead. “I only hope my teammates have more time to think about tactics.”

“Then aren’t you afraid of death?” Earth-Rabbit’s voice gradually became somewhat weaker. “Your left hand is injured like this, bones broken and flesh burned. How long can you hold out?”

“Doesn’t matter.” Song Qi shook his head indifferently. “I’ll hold out until I die, or you die.”

Earth-Rabbit had completely understood this man’s character and could only change his approach, saying, “Then what about that child?”

“Child…?”

“That kid has been holding on until now by ‘Echo,’ right? Even if he can hold out for a day’s time… what about his ‘conviction’? If there’s even the slightest thought of ‘I’m really going to die’… he’ll collapse on the spot right now, won’t he?”

Hearing this, Song Qi silently pressed his lips together. Although he knew these words were Earth-Rabbit’s scheme, what Earth-Rabbit said was indeed correct. If they continued to drag this out, Jiang Shi could die at any moment. Every additional second brought him one step closer to death.

But if he didn’t delay time and wanted to use his action points… how should he use them?

“Got it…” Song Qi shook his head, feeling he had thought too much, and said with a laugh, “I’ll walk into your room right now, close the door, and fight you to mutual destruction once more.”

Just as he was about to stride through the door, Earth-Rabbit suddenly flashed out from beside the wall and pressed his hand against his neck.

“Well…” Song Qi’s eyes turned cold, feeling something was wrong, but still immediately collected himself and said, “Your hand reached over, isn’t that against the rules?”

Earth-Rabbit didn’t speak, only slowly increased the force in his hand, tightly locking Song Qi’s throat.

“I never said ‘hands’ couldn’t extend into another room, did I?”

Song Qi’s breathing became increasingly difficult. Using all his strength, he squeezed out several words from between his teeth. “But we’re not in the same room… how are you going to kill me?”